People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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